HOW NIELS BOHR CRACKED THE RARE-EARTH CODE

Rare earths are presently steering talks on EV batteries, wind turbines and next-gen defence gear. Yet many people frequently mix up what “rare earths” really are. Seventeen little-known elements underwrite the tech that fuels modern life. For decades they mocked chemists, remaining a riddle, until a quantum pioneer named Niels Bohr rewrote